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Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
EXTRACTS EROM THE PROCEEDINGS OE COUNCIL OF THE 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
At a weekly Council meeting, held the 23d of April, the 
following letter, received from Mr. Spooner in reference to 
the arachide-nut cake, was read : 
“Eling, near Southampton, March 31, 1856. 
“ In reply to your communication requesting me to furnish 
the Council with information respecting the price and the 
supply of arachide-nut cake, a sample of which I had the 
honour of forwarding a short time since, I beg to state that 
my firm (Spooner and Bailey) have imported two cargoes 
from Rouen, in France, since October last, and that the pre- 
sent price is £9 per ton. It appears to be relished more by 
sheep than by cattle. I think there is likely to be a fair supply 
of this cake, unless there should be a great depreciation in the 
value of feeding-cakes as well as oil, so as to render the col- 
lection of the nuts not sufficiently remunerative. It is scarcely 
necessary to observe, that whilst linseed-cake will probably 
always maintain its supremacy amongst the different feeding 
materials, yet it must surely be the interest of agriculturists 
to encourage the introduction of other feeding-cakes, such as 
nut-cake, poppy-cake, and cotton-cake, more particularly 
when such cakes are rich in the nitrogenous elements. 
Poppy-cake is much relished by cattle as well as sheep and 
appears to be very suitable for working oxen. It is rather 
dearer than nut-cake. “ W. C. Spooner.” 
At a Special Council, held the 16th of May, the following 
report was read from the Governors of the Royal Veterinary 
College : 
Royal Veterinary College, April, 1856. 
The Governors of the Royal Veterinary College, in pre- 
senting their annual report to the Council of the Royal 
Agricultural Society, have again the pleasure of congratulating 
them on the undisturbed harmony which has continued to 
exist between the two institutions. In a union such as this, 
the Governors find an assurance that veterinary science can- 
not fail in her continuous efforts of investigation into the 
